color became nihility

the color that once settled
has been washed away
from the tears i had cried
the color became nihility
it vanished from my palms
escaping into a world that has gates
and the gates will not open to let me in
instead they used me as a gate
cause i was standing still
unknowingly my vulnerability
had swiveled into a liability
my acceptance had the greater strength
so i learned to collapse and allow it
to take every inch of control
while i just sat there
drenched in hopelessness

This Poems Story

this poem i wrote is about becoming very depressed. and dealing with depression. also about abuse and how it can make you feel worthless and the color seems to fade away gradually. depression take control of you. the abuser controls you. even though this poem is very eerie and dark. it has a beautiful ending with color. but it is located in another poem.

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The number one question our editors receive is—what do the editors and judges look for when judging the contest? The number one answer we give is creativity. Unlike prose, writing composed in everyday language, poetry is considered a creative art and requires a different type of effort and a certain level of depth. Of the thousands of poems entered in each contest, the ones that catch our judges’ eyes are the ones that remove us, even just slightly, from the scope of everyday life by using language that is interesting, specific, vivid, obscure, compelling, figurative, and so on. Oftentimes, poems are pulled aside for a second look based simply on certain words that intrigued the reader. So first and foremost, be sure your poetry is written using creative language. Take general ideas and make them personal. In his infamous book De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong, W. D. Snodgrass imparts, “We cannot honestly discuss or represent our lives, any more than our poems, without using ideational language.”